SitemapXML v.2

[cmgraham]

OK I am having a strange thing happen...I uninstalled the older version and installed this new sitemapxml version. I have everything installed correctly (I believe!) but when I go and click to generate the sitemap it brings up this page http://www.redwood-puppy.com/index.p...age=sitemapxml which is a page not found page on my website! I don't get the site map generation.

Why on earth not?

Please help!

[cmgraham]

OK please ignore my previous post, I figured out what was wrong. Now when I generate I get two failed areas, EZpages and reviews. I don't have any reviews so that is probably why that one is popping up but I do have EZ pages. Here is what I get:

SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Categories Sitemap

File http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapcategories.xml. Written 11 items (2537 bytes), Filesize: 2546 bytes
Total: files 1, items 11 (2546 bytes).

Ezpages Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapezpages.xml"!!!
File http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapezpages.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes

Products Sitemap
File http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapproducts.xml. Written 40 items (8567 bytes), Filesize: 8576 bytes
Total: files 1, items 40 (8576 bytes).

Reviews Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapreviews.xml"!!!
File http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapreviews.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes

Sitemap Index
Include sitemap3.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemap3.xml)
Include sitemapcategories.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapcategories.xml)
Include sitemap.xml.gz (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemap.xml.gz)
Include sitemap1.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemap1.xml)
Include sitemap4.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemap4.xml)
Include sitemap.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemap.xml)
Include sitemapproducts.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapproducts.xml)
URL - http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapindex.xml
Written 7 items (1265 bytes), Filesize: 1265 bytes
Total Execution Time 0:0.3850

Any fixes for this?

Also, I saw that there was an EZpages fix, but what do you do with the php file? Do you replace the old sitemapezpages with this new sitemapxml_ezpages? And if so, what else needs to be modified so that it works correctly?

[moates405]

Hi zencart Community
I have installed Google sitemap xml on 2 different zen shops
but my number 1 shop does not get index in google for some reason.
my number 2 shop being index within 5 hours of install
any help would be appreciated.
I have compared both store files and can not find any difference????
Have read & reread and modified all files as per this forum.
Both stores live for about 5 months.
Problem shop is www.tassaddlery.com.au

zen cart v1.3.8

Any advice Appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Michael

[ShoesBuyOnline]

Hi, there

Why I always get the 'cURL Error: Error http_code "403" ...' while I click 'step 2' inside 'Google XML Sitemap Admin' interface but the other 3 pings works well. When I try to submit my sitemap to yahoo manually using 'http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://www.shoesbuyonline.com/sitemapindex.xml', it would throw another error said 'The following errors were detected <Message>limit exceeded</Message>'. I have created an account with yahoo and have authenticate my website by adding a block of code in my html_header.php file.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

[mattclements]

Not sure if this has been covered already - but should the sitemap include the index page (i.e. / )

Google has indexed all my products & pages except the homepage.

Regards,
Matt

[Zean]

should the sitemap include the index page (i.e. / )
Google has indexed all my products & pages except the homepage.

Yes. That is probably your most important page.

[ckosloff]

Why I always get the 'cURL Error: Error http_code "403" ...' while I click 'step 2' inside 'Google XML Sitemap Admin' interface but the other 3 pings works well.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=173

[ShoesBuyOnline]

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=173

Hi, ckosloff

Thanks for your reply.
I have read the post in your link carefully before I post my question in this thread. So, I have an account with yahoo and have authenticated my site via adding a block of code from yahoo. And, I have even submitted my sitemapindex.xml file as a feed to Yahoo. Now, what I do is to press the 'resubmit feeds' button inside yahoo siteexplorer.

Don't know why and don't know how to deal with this.

Regards,

[slomojojo]

Hi, there

Why I always get the 'cURL Error: Error http_code "403" ...' while I click 'step 2' inside 'Google XML Sitemap Admin' interface but the other 3 pings works well. When I try to submit my sitemap to yahoo manually using 'http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://www.shoesbuyonline.com/sitemapindex.xml', it would throw another error said 'The following errors were detected <Message>limit exceeded</Message>'. I have created an account with yahoo and have authenticate my website by adding a block of code in my html_header.php file.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

I've been struggling with the same error. The "limit exceeded" error from Yahoo means your sitemap files are too large and you need to turn on the gzip compression.

DONT FORGET! you need to fix the typo for compression to work properly. see instructions http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=169

I've been submitting to Yahoo manually like you have, entering the URL directly into the browser and sending it, because it returns more helpful error messages. With the files compressed, the submission gets accepted about half the time.

[ShoesBuyOnline]

I've been struggling with the same error. The "limit exceeded" error from Yahoo means your sitemap files are too large and you need to turn on the gzip compression.

DONT FORGET! you need to fix the typo for compression to work properly. see instructions http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=169

I've been submitting to Yahoo manually like you have, entering the URL directly into the browser and sending it, because it returns more helpful error messages. With the files compressed, the submission gets accepted about half the time.

Hi, slomojojo

Thanks for your reply.
I have fix the typo in the link and the fact now is I have only directories setup but no products in. So, my problem looks weird. All other 3 SEs accepted but Yahoo don't.

All the best,